Quotes of Understood - somelinesforyou

“ What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ”

- Mark Twain

“ In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ”

- Paul Dirac

“ I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. ”

- Virginia Satir

“ A comprehended God is no God at all. ”

- Gerhard Tersteegen

“ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ”

- Bible

“ Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac. ”

- Paul Dirac

“ She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. ”

- John Dryden

“ Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. ”

- Greta Garbo

“ I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. ”

- Mark Ardis

“ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ”

- William Penn

“ Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ”

- Paul Eldridge

“ What is not fully understood is not possessed. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. ”

- C. C. Colton

“ The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ”

- Alexander Haig

“ Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world. ”

- Emily Taft Douglas

“ No one ever understood disaster until it came. ”

- Josephine Herbst

“ What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. ”

- Unknown

“ Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. ”

- Plato

“ I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. ”

- Robert McCloskey

“ A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. ”

- George Steiner

“ My music is best understood by children and animals. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ Nothing in this world is to be feared… only understood. ”

- Marie Curie

“ A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ”

- Frank Herbert
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